Emotion Painting: Lyric, Affect, and Musical Relationships in a Large Lead-Sheet Corpus

How are lyrical emotions expressed in music? This paper explores the correlation between affect-carrying lyrics and musical features such as beat strength, duration, pitch height, consonance, and mode. Using computer-aided musicology software music21 and the NRC emotion lexicon, we conduct a corpus...

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Main Authors: Sophia H. Sun, Michael Scott Cuthbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2018-06-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:http://emusicology.org/article/view/5889